ADMINISTRATIVE SITES. 53 



In order to avoid conflicts with applicants under the Forest home- 

 stead act, the selection of administrative sites should 

 Sites selected b e completed at the earliest date possible. All sites 

 ^possl- ? e l ect . ec f must be conspicuously posted with admin- 

 . istrative site notices (Form 263) in order that the 



public may know the status of the land. 



No site will be selected which has been applied for under the act of 

 . June 11, 1906, or is actually occupied or used in good 

 c faith for agricultural or mining purposes or for a home. 



If an area actually needed for administrative purposes 

 is covered by a claim, a report on the claim may be made in accord- 

 ance with the procedure prescribed under "Claims." The selection 

 will not be made or the site posted while the application is pending 

 or until the claim is abandoned or is canceled by the General Land 

 Office. 



Unsurveyed lands within the limits of railroad grants which will, 



when surveyed, be included in railroad sections will 



1^* l not be selected if it is possible to find other areas. 



When such lands are selected they will be subject 



to any rights which may accrue to the railroad by reason of survey 



and patent. 



When a State indemnity selection has been approved the base land 

 State selection ma y ^e selected and used for administrative pur- 

 poses even before patent to the land selected by 

 the State has issued. 



Supervisors will not select mineral lands for administrative sites 



. i i j unless a suitable site on nonmineral land can not be 

 Mineral lands. > 



secured. 



The selection of an administrative site within a withdrawal for rec- 



. lamation purposes will not be made until the district 



withdrawals? forester is informed by the supervising engineer of the 



Reclamation Service that the use of the land for an 

 administrative site will not conflict with the purposes for which it 

 was withdrawn. 



A relinquishment offered by a claimant, when the use of the tract 



covered by the claim and the purchase of the improve- 

 ment^ * ments thereon for administrative purposes is contem- 

 plated, must not be accepted until its acceptance has 

 been specifically authorized by the Forester. (See "Claims," Reg. 

 L-41.) 



In determining the amount to be offered for improvements which 



it seems advisable to purchase, their actual value to 

 improvements. t ^ ie Forest Service and not necessarily their original 



cost to the claimant should govern. No consideration 

 can be given for the value of the land, since its title is in the United 

 States. Land can not be purchased except under a specific appro- 

 priation by Congress. 



When an administrative site is selected, it will be immediately 



located by legal subdivisions if on surveyed land or 

 selection. 1 " *>y a metes an d bounds survey if on unsurveyed land. 



Surveys will be made in accordance with the "In- 

 structions for Making Forest Surveys and Maps." The status of the 

 land will then be obtained and, if open to selection, the site will be 



